Naruto's two-color pupils

It's almost autumn.

The Kingdom of Wind has always been in a hot environment, so the autumn colors come very late - at least, later than other places.A few faint and drifting clouds can often be seen in the sky of the Kingdom of Wind. In the evening, they are still reflected by the red clouds. They would like to hang on the horizon and add an undulating golden-red edge to the sky.The autumn twilight is particularly solemn.At the seemingly endless horizon of the desert, the scattered dark light contrasts with the red glow, blending together softly until the setting sun sinks and is drowned by the golden color of the desert.

Autumn in the Kingdom of Wind is only reflected in the dreamlike scenery. A different kind of desert tells people the arrival of autumn and heralds the quiet arrival of winter.However, the climate here has not changed - not much, it should be said.During the day, the hot sun still scorches the earth, causing white smoke to rise in the desert, causing travelers from afar to mistakenly think it is cooking smoke.

Unlike other countries, spring is not the time when the children of Sunagakure Ninja Village happily fly paper kites, but autumn.

In autumn here, the wind is gentler, which is most suitable for flying kites.It is especially suitable in the evening when the temperature gradually drops, with the cool breath in the wind and the increasing amount of water vapor.At this time, there are always groups of children taking out their paper kites, showing off to each other, and flying them in the sky, creating beautiful patterns on the already flawless blue crystal sky.Skilled people come here to sell kites, and are often able to empty their goods within a few days, and return home with a full load while counting the money.

At the same time, the annual kite flying "competition" was held on September 9 this year.In fact, this competition is not a formal competition, but it is a custom that everyone comes out in groups to fly kites on this day, and compete with others to see whose kite can fly high and straight.However……

"Yue Yexiu, come out quickly!"

"No. Can't you go by yourself?"

"What?" Sa Ren complained unhappily, knocking on the door hard and shouting, "Isn't it just to fly a kite? Mu is waiting for you!"

"It's fake..." I said.

"Yes, that's a lie, because I don't have one." Mu said to Sa Ren angrily.

"That's that... Ze Ren is waiting for you." Sa Ren said again.

"Why did you mention Zeren?" I asked in surprise.

"I saw his hospital taking care of you. He likes you, doesn't he?"

"No. Stop talking nonsense, Sa Ren. If you dare to tell others about this, I will tell Hideki how you slandered him and changed the mission information."

I sat on the floor with my back against the door.Sa Ren and Mu were standing outside.Sa Ren had already persuaded me to come out and accompany them to fly a kite for 10 minutes, but I didn't even open the door.

"How despicable! Didn't you agree not to tell him?"

"Aren't you also dirty? I also told you that I don't want to go out. I want to stay at home alone and be quiet. Don't you understand?" I said, bending my legs, hugging them and burying my face in them. .

He didn't make a sound for a long time.

I thought he had left, but his voice came again: "Why? Everyone is here... If you don't go, there will be one less person among the 12 of us there... Don't you think that's very inappropriate?" Is it perfect? ​​You don’t have to let it go, Saotome and the others are sitting by and watching anyway.”

"It's not that I don't want to fly a kite..." I said, "I don't want to go out..."

"She has been in solitary confinement for several days..." I heard Mu whisper to Sa Ren.

"Is that so?" Sa Ren also asked quietly.

Mu didn't answer him with words. I guessed that he just nodded.

For a while, they spoke in such low voices that I couldn't hear them clearly, almost not a single word.Finally, I heard Sa Ren stamp his feet, and once again said to me through the door: "Then... if you want to come, just come to Qiulan's house and find us."

"Don't worry...I won't go..." I lowered my head and replied calmly.

After hearing their footsteps getting lighter, I picked up my bag, opened the window and jumped onto the windowsill.At this time, Lin Huo was yawning and walked out of the room. He was startled when he saw me: "What are you going to do, little sister?"

"I'm going out for a while and I'll be back at noon..." After saying that, I jumped out without waiting for his reaction and ran towards the hospital.

"Hello... hello!" Lin Huo ran to the window, watched me fall steadily to the ground, crouched down and ran away quickly. He sighed helplessly, put his hand on his forehead, and then walked away from me. The window left.

I looked back at him, then ran towards that familiar direction without looking back.

The sky is almost overwhelming with kites, hitting the ground with shadows of different shapes, trembling slightly in the wind, and those with blurry shadows often fly the highest.I ran quickly through the crowd and heard their extremely happy laughter, showing off to others how high and straight their kites flew.Yes.I couldn't help but stop and look at the child about my age who was talking to an adult: "Uncle, look at my kite. My mother made it for me. Isn't it great? Eagle." He looked up at him proudly and laughed, "Every year my kite flies the highest and straightest because it has the largest wings." The adult replied with an apologetic smile: "It's very, very high. …”

I raised my head and saw an eagle with brown and white feathers soaring in the sky. Its wings were trembling in the strong wind at high altitude, but it had no intention of floating down.The boy was right. Although it was far away, it was obvious that it was probably the largest kite I had ever seen.

Only strong people can fly at the highest altitude.

I pulled the bag and continued running.

At this time, a familiar sound of footsteps came to my ears.It felt cautiously, as if it was following me.The pace is fast, but surprisingly light.After a while, it disappears for a few seconds, and then appears again, very quickly.I hurriedly stopped and looked back - except for the sound of children flying kites chasing each other, there was no one else.The sound is gone.

I stopped paying attention to the person who was following me and continued running towards the hospital.

Entering the hospital, I slowed down because running is not allowed here.I came to the room where my mother was, took a deep breath, and walked in with my bag.What makes me a little strange this time is that there is an extra bed in this room.There have been other patients here before, but since this is an emergency room, there are very few patients here, and if there are, they stay for a few days and then move to other wards.In the past, when my mother could still sit up and talk to others happily, there was a woman who was also suffering from cancer, about the same age as my mother, chatting with her.They often worry about their children, and my mother often talks about me and Mrs. Long, and she is just like my mother complaining about her son who does not seek to make progress.

However, these are all memories...

The left and right sides of the new hospital bed were covered with white cloth, but not the middle.The sound of my footsteps gave me away as I happened to be passing by.Sitting on the hospital bed was a haggard-looking girl, younger than me, maybe only 6 or 7 years old.When she heard my voice, she suddenly raised her head and said loudly: "Mom! Mom! Is that you?" I didn't answer. I didn't know she was calling me. Did she regard me as her mother? "Or, daddy?" Her voice trembled, not because of fear or anything, but with a kind of excitement and hope.

"Are you... calling me?" I asked her, pointing to myself strangely.

She was stunned for a moment, then lowered her head.

"I'm sorry, big sister, I thought it was my mother when I heard that voice..." She sniffed.

I feel a little sad and don't know why.From what she just said, I seemed to know something, but I kept it hidden in my heart.

Seeing that I didn't answer, and in order to break the awkward situation, she asked me: "Sister, the water at the head of my bed is too far away from me. The doctor told me not to move. Can you help me get it?" It's full of innocence and the feeling of helping people even if they don't want to.

I walked gently and reached for the paper cup on her bedside table.She had been looking ahead, and now she was looking towards me.But what makes me a little strange is that before I came to her, her eyes had already fallen there, and it didn't seem that she was looking at me.I handed her the cup. She just took a sip and then gave it to me to put back.Obviously, she didn't want to drink water.She raised her head and looked up, her brown pupils shining.

"Sister is here to visit?"

"Ah."

"Who are you coming to see?"

"my mother."

"Oh, your mother..." Her eyes were full of hope, as if she was talking about her own mother.

I walked to my mother's window and looked at her.She was still asleep with a bitter look on her face, her head tilted towards the sunny window, breathing heavily in her sleep, and her breathing seemed labored.Her face had turned haggard and pale, and the normal skin color of a human being could hardly be seen anymore.Although the weather was very hot and it was not cool in the hospital, she still wrapped herself tightly in the quilt, but sweat broke out on her forehead.

I sighed.

"Sister, how is your mother?" the girl asked innocently through the white cloth.

"Not really." I answered bluntly.

She may not have expected my answer, because many people would say: "Not bad, thank you for your concern." Even if they lie at this time, I may be different. I like to tell the truth, and I feel the same way in my heart. I think so.I sighed and put my bag on my back, ready to leave.Staying here is a waste of time.I thought it would be better if my mother was awake.And there are other people here, so it’s not convenient to say anything. After all... some of them are even state secrets. They are just about me, and it has nothing to do with my mother.

Just as I passed her hospital bed, she suddenly stopped me: "Sister, can you stay with me for a while..."

I stop.

She lowered her head and said, "I'm here alone. I'm actually very lonely... and I don't know how my parents are doing..."

"Why are you here?" I asked her.

"Originally, my family was going to the Sunagakure Ninja Village to watch a kite competition, because I like to make kites. But there was a storm on the way there, which caused a mudslide. Later... I don't even remember it when I woke up. I was here when I was pregnant. The doctor said that my parents were also injured here. I don’t know how they are doing..." She tilted her head slightly, but I couldn’t tell what she was looking at. "I want to find someone to talk to..."

I thought about it and looked outside the door.

A shadow was printed on the ground at the door, but it slowly disappeared without any sound - is that person gone...

I sat down on the chair on the girl's bedside table and said, "Then I can stay with you for a while."

She smiled, but didn't say anything, just looked ahead.

I began to understand that she didn't really want to talk to me, because she didn't actually know me, just because she often stayed here alone, with no one to accompany her except the doctors and nurses at work.Even though she didn't talk to me and I ignored her, she still felt at ease.Because there is someone by my side.

"What's your name?" I asked her.

She hesitated for a long time.I thought her parents told her not to tell her name to strangers or something, but she said: "I...I can't remember it since the mudslide..."

"Why can't you remember? You still remember your parents, and you remember that you came here to watch kites. How come you don't remember the name you wrote for several years?" I asked her strangely.

She shook her head. "I don't know, but that's all I forgot. I think I might have hit my head."

What an unlucky feeling.

Later, I left, and she asked me to come back every three or four days to see her.I agreed, because I had nothing to do and no time to train, so I came here every day.She gradually talked to me more and more, until she became so familiar with me that I became like a good friend.I heard what she said, and I heard a nurse in this ward who was very familiar with me tell me that this girl’s family was indeed going to the Sunagakure Ninja Village to watch kites, but they encountered a mudslide while passing by. At that time, everyone in the team was In distress.It's a pity that this girl didn't know why, probably because she suffered a head injury, she forgot her name.The nurse said that she also found it strange that she could not recover her memory about the name for a long time.

During this period when I was still immersed in the pain of my parents' divorce, she brought me the kind of happiness that felt like I was still in childhood.She often asked me many strange questions.

"Does eldest sister have many, many friends?"

"Hmm...probably not much."

"Sister, are you in school now? Why do you look so idle?"

"I went to school before."

"What do the kites in your country look like?"

"Everything. What kind of things would you do?"

"I like making squares."

I laughed.

Today's autumn is really beautiful.It has been more than a week, and the number of kites in the sky has not decreased. The sky is densely filled with colorful autumn waves.

When I come here every day, I keep paying attention to the shadow behind me on the first day.Although I had no clue at first, I now have a rough idea of ​​who it is.I didn't catch him immediately. I pretended not to notice and continued to come to the hospital every day.In the past few days, I have been carefully avoiding Sa Ren and the others.

This child smiles brightly every day, but I also find that when I leave, often when I walk to the door, she lowers her head and her eyes are empty.Because she knew that two new corpses appeared in the morgue...

"Dad... Mom..."

I leaned against the door rail and saw her tears streaking across her face, soaking the quilt and pillow.Slowly, the small sobs turned into loud crying, and the crying was extremely painful, until the throat could no longer scream and the voice was hoarse.I don't know why, she never cries in front of me, she always waits for me to leave.However, when I stood at the door, she could clearly see me, but she didn't...

Another day, I came here and the girl was not in the hospital bed.The nurse who was making the bed in the ward said: "She went for surgery and someone donated her corneas."

I was stunned.

Now I know that she can't see it at all.

A few days later, the operation was successful. She and I stood at the door of the hospital, looking up at the sky.She was very emotional, she never knew that kites were so beautiful.She said that she had made them before, and they were all in the shape of squares, but she never knew the color. If she wanted to know what they looked like, she had to touch them with her hands.There is only darkness in the world.

"Sister, I want a name."

I did not speak.

"Sister, what's your name?"

I haven't told her my name yet...

"My name is Hinata Tsukiyoshi."

"What a nice name...what does that mean?"

"Hinata is my last name, and Tsukiyoshi is Shura who was born on a full moon night." I smiled, "That... is the name my brother gave me."

"Then, sister, please give me a name too..." she said to me with a smile, "just like naming my sister."

I was stunned, looked at her, and finally smiled.

"Kite, how's it going?"

She touched her eyes with her hands and sobbed: "I like..."